American composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has invited the world to sing-a-long online in an attempt create the world’s largest virtual choir. The Juilliard-trained Whitacre — whose first Virtual Choir became a hit on YouTube — aims to combine thousands of individual choral parts sung by people around the world and submitted as video clips […]
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New Maryville College choir gives outlet to high school singers
MARYVILLE – Megan Sparkes used to belong to the Asheville Symphony Children’s Choir in North Carolina. When she and her family moved to Tennessee about three months ago, however, she was left without a place to sing. And because the 16-year-old is homeschooled, she didn’t have the option of singing in a school choir. Maryville […]
Opera composer to take over American Fork children’s choir
AMERICAN FORK, Utah — The road from writing operas to directing children singing about a mysterious cat or a Halloween song about bones is apparently not too long. M. Ryan Taylor, composer of the opera "Abinadi," is the new director of the American Fork Children's Choir. He only has two rehearsals under his […]
Keith Reas Appointed Artistic Director For Choral Arts Of Chattanooga
Keith Scott Reas has been appointed as the new artistic director for the 2010-2011 season for Choral Arts Of Chattanooga. Choral Arts is a chorus of experienced, professionally minded singers whose mission is to offer the Chattanooga community the finest in classical and contemporary choral literature at the highest level of performance. The organization recently […]
KSU Salem gets new choir chief
Salem, Ohio — Melissa Fucci has been named choir director and music instructor at Kent State University Salem Campus. Fucci comes to Kent State Salem from the Kent main campus where she is an instructor of musical theatre at the Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance. She is also the education coordinator […]
The Glee Effect
It was precisely a century ago that the Yale Whiffenpoofs first banded together to sing of poor little lambs who had lost their way. Since that fateful night at Mory’s Temple Bar, choral groups, a cappella or otherwise, have grown to become nationwide high school and college staples, their allure ebbing and flowing, as dictated […]